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A 5-foot long Iguana bolted out the door and cannot be found. Its guardian is asking the public not to get near the lizard as he’s already bitten her. The public is being asked to call animal control if they see the lizard.

A 4-foot, 25 pound male macaque was caught after several people reported spotting it near East Lake Toho in the St. Cloud area. Animal control shot the monkey out from a tree canopy with a tranquilizer dart from a sheriff’s helicopter and the monkey fell 60-100 feet sustaining injuries. The monkey later died while in animal control custody. It is unknown where the monkey came from or how he got loose.

A man called police to report a large snake lying underneath a Ford Focus in the Sears parking lot in Buena Park. Animal control officers removed the python and are currently looking for the owner.

A man found a 6 and 1/2 foot ball python coiled around his car’s carburetor and called police. The snake had escaped from a neighbor’s house.

A retired therapy monkey escaped through a doggie door was caught 3 days later. The monkey is a 5-year old greenback grivet and was in the process of being moved to a new home.

A spinner dolphin that was rescued and residing at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota since 2005 has died of unknown causes.

An 80-year old man is in fair condition after his 6-foot tall, 200-pound kangaroo attacked him for 15 minutes at an exotic-animal farm in Ohio. The man was taken to a hospital. The owners plan to euthanize the kangaroo.

Police were contacted by a snake owner that a 6-foot redtail boa constrictor could be loose.

A redtail boa believed to be someone’s pet was rescued by two good Samaritans while trying to cross a road. The snake was taken to Clyde Peeling’s Reptileland.

A snake was reported to be loose in a neighgborhood. The responding officer reported that the pet’s owner was located and advised of the situation.